Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Deux personnages
signed and dated 'Picasso 16.12.53' (upper right)
brush and India ink on paper
814 x 1038 in. (21 x 26.5 cm.)
Painted on 16 December 1953
Provenance
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the artist).
Mrs. Brian Derek Mace, California (by 1961).
James J. Bigoni, Portland, Oregon; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 2005, lot 366.
Sam Simon, California (acquired at the above sale); Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 2015, lot 326.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1965, vol. 16, no. 56 (illustrated, pl. 20).
J.J. Bigoni, Fantastic Travel & Vacations, Portland, 2001, p. 16 (illustrated and illustrated again, p. 96).
Exhibited
Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries, "Bonne Fête": Monsieur Picasso from Southern California Collectors, October-November 1961, no. 101 (titled Jeune fille et vieillard).
The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Picasso: Passion and Creation, The Last Thirty Years, January-April 2001 (illustrated; titled Young Girl and an Old Man).
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